C.J. Leslie goes for a lose ball during the 2010 Jordan Brand classic at Madison Square Garden on April 17. The 6-foot-8 forward said he will sign with North Carolina State and play for coach Sidney Lowe.

By Gary Mihoces, USA TODAY

There will be no more naked weigh-ins in high school wrestling — not in this age of cellphone cameras and easy access to the Internet.

Among wrestling rules changes approved this week by the National Federation of State High School Associations is that starting next season, competitors must weigh in wearing "suitable" undergarments. That means covering the buttocks and groin and, in the case of girls, breasts.

"The concern is technology. We're getting into cellphones getting into weigh-in areas. ... It's a privacy thing," said Bob Colgate, assistant director of the Indianapolis-based association.

There have been breaches of that privacy. "There is every year," Colgate said. " ... If I was in a state association office, I'd rather have someone upset at me that their daughter or son was a tenth of a pound overweight than call and tell me, 'Why is their picture on the Internet?' "

With weight classes in wrestling, one-tenth of a pound can prevent a wrestler from competing at that weight. That was motivation for some to totally strip.

The previous rule was they could wear "no more" than an undergarment. The rationale was that weigh-ins also are when wrestlers are checked for skin conditions such as ringworm. It is a total body check of limbs and torsos.

"They didn't want you covering up some kind of communicable skin condition," said Dale Pleimann, chair of the association's wrestling rules committee.

The new rule is about images spreading on the Internet.

"The big concern is that with cellphones and (video) recordings and pictures and stuff like that, privacy issues were a great concern," Pleimann said. "All it takes is one time. With the ease of putting stuff like that on the Internet, YouTube and all those things, we just felt it's better to make sure that everybody is appropriately covered."

Colgate also said the rule accommodates female doctors and athletic trainers doing skin checks on males and vice versa so as "not to exclude some of those people."

Before last season, the NCAA made a rules change that wrestlers must weigh in wearing briefs, boxers or a competition singlet. It also cited privacy and the increased number of female athletic trainers, doctors and administrators. The NCAA had allowed naked weigh-ins.

In international freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, the rule is that wrestlers must weigh in wearing their competition singlets. That was done at last week's U.S. Open in Cleveland.

Coach fired: Cyril Crutchfield has been terminated as football and track coach at South Plaquemines (Port Sulphur, La.) and suspended five days without pay as a teacher and school bus driver amid allegations he used profane language in front of students and a fellow teacher. Crutchfield, who has denied the allegations and requested a hearing before the Plaquemines Parish School Board, is 105-33 in football with three state titles and two other state final appearances in 10 seasons.

Leslie to Wolfpack: C.J. Leslie, a 6-9 forward from Word of God (Raleigh, N.C.) and the No. 14 recruit in the 2010 basketball class according to Rivals.com, said Wednesday that he intends to sign with North Carolina State. The No. 13 recruit, 6-8 forward Terrence Jones of Jefferson (Portland, Ore.), said he plans to announce his choice Friday.

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